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What really prevents nations from making nuclear bombs

Nuclear bombs do not rely on size, they rely on physics. Here is how chain reactions and hydrogen bombs unleash power on a ...
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The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...
New York Post

Tennessee bomb factory explosion leaves as many as 19 feared missing or dead

As many as 19 people are missing and feared dead after a “devastating blast” leveled a Tennessee bomb factory Friday, according to officials. The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local ...
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Nagasaki remembers atomic bomb victims 80 years on with minute of silence

A minute of silence was observed Saturday in Nagasaki, precisely at the time of the atomic bomb explosion dropped by a US bomber on the Japanese city 80 years ago, while the restored bell tower of the ...

The US military set off its largest nuclear explosion in testing 69 years ago, but scientists had no idea the blast would be that big

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Reuters

Bomb explosion injures two PKK members in northern Iraq, police say

BAGHDAD, July 2 (Reuters) - Two members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were seriously injured on Tuesday after a bomb attached to their car exploded in the city of Sulaimaniya in the ...